Exam 5: Learning

The fact that the CS must come immediately before the UCS,and not after is a problem for the ____________ theory of why classical conditioning works.

An important example of conditioned taste aversions might be:

Which learning theorist is responsible for the discovery of conditioned taste aversions?

____________ is an example of a primary reinforcer,whereas ____________ is an example of a secondary reinforcer.

Jessica's mother was upset to find that Jessica had used her crayons to draw flowers on her bedroom wall.Her mother took the crayons away from her and made Jessica wash the drawings off the wall.Which of the following statements is true for Jessica?

____________ occurs when a response is followed by experiencing something pleasurable.

Harmony notices that her cat salivates as soon as her cat hears the sound of Harmony opening a can with an electric can opener.In this example,the _______________ is the conditioned stimulus.

Learning is thought to be a relatively permanent change in behaviour because:

The kinesthetic senses are concerned with:

After graduating from college,you are hired to work in a factory as an industrial psychologist.The workers put together iPods.They can either be paid by the hour or by the number of iPods they put together in a day.You decide that you will do the latter (pay by the number of iPods put together).According to Skinner,you have put the workers on a fixed-ratio schedule.

After Pavlov's dogs became conditioned to salivate at the sound of the bell,Pavlov experimented with ringing the bell and then failing to present the dogs with any food right away.Soon they stopped salivating to the sound of the bell.This represents the process called:

Professor Elliot told his students that if his door was open,it meant that he was available to them and would gladly answer any questions they might have.But if his door was pushed almost completely shut,it meant that he was busy and would prefer not to answer questions at that time.Professor Elliot's door being open was __________ for __________.

Changes controlled by a genetic blueprint,such as an increase in height or the size of the brain,are examples of:

Last month Walter became sick after eating two chili dogs,so he no longer likes chili dogs.Walter has experienced:

After a CS comes to elicit the CR response,the CS now can be paired with a new neutral stimulus and this second neutral stimulus will start to elicit a CR.This process is called:

The person MOST closely associated with the Law of Effect is:

________ is an example of a primary reinforcer,whereas ________ is an example of a secondary reinforcer.

In Pavlov's classical conditioning,experiments,the dog learned to salivate at the sound of a bell,after the bell was repeatedly paired with the presentation of food.In this example,the food is called the unconditioned response.

Molly is sometimes loud and disruptive in class,and her teacher thinks she acts this way when she wants attention.The teacher worries that yelling at Molly,because that is a kind of attention,might be a positive reinforcer for her inappropriate behaviour.One behaviour modification that might help with this child is use of:

A change in behaviour that is relatively permanent and brought about by experience is commonly referred to by psychologists as acquisition behaviour.